‘Qamile Stema, 88, a so-called sworn virgin, scolds relatives for not visiting her often enough.’ IHT, Sworn to virginity and living as men in Albania: “Pashe Keqi recalls the day nearly sixty years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sexuality'
Sworn to virginity and living as men in Albania
June 24th, 2008
Tags: albania · cross dressing · feminism · sexuality
The Orgasmic Mind
May 15th, 2008
‘Le Roi de la Capote [Charlotte] Publicité préservatif’ (video – Adrants), ter gelegenheid van Wereld Aids Dag. Scentific American, The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure: “Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and psychological signals—and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas”
On James Brown’s sexual habits
April 6th, 2008
Sean Flynn on GQ Blog, Papa: “”You’d have to grow up in a whorehouse to understand how James Brown felt about women,” one of his confidants says, which is apt because Mr. Brown did, in fact, grow up in a whorehouse. His mother walked out on his father when he was 4, and two years [...]
Tags: james brown · music · sex · sexuality
‘Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex.’
March 13th, 2008
Lauren Berlant in The Nation, Against Sexual Scandal: “Instead, what stories like this really do is to damage the reputation of sex. Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex. I felt sorry for sex during the Larry Craig brouhaha last summer. What if he liked being married and procreating and giving anonymous [...]
Tags: eliot spitzer · erotophobia · media · sex · sexuality · usa
Dolphins woo females with bunches of weeds
December 8th, 2007
Telegraph, Dolphins woo females with bunches of weeds: “A new study shows that male dolphins carry pieces of plants and twigs to impress females, rather than simply playful behaviour as previously believed. Object-carrying as part of sexual display is rare in the animal kingdom, with only humans and chimpanzees doing anything similar.”
L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret.
December 5th, 2007
Bibliothèque Nationale, L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret (pdf): Dans les années 1830, les ouvrages imprimés dits « contraires aux bonnes moeurs » publiés sous le manteau, poursuivis ou condamnés, sont séparés du reste des collections de la Bibliothèque royale et rassemblés afin de constituer une section distincte intitulée Enfer et conservée à la [...]
Tags: art · bibliothèque nationale · france · library · literature · pornography · sexuality
In Japan, it’s the men who want to be skinny and cute
November 19th, 2007
IHT, In Japan, it’s the men who want to be skinny and cute: “Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does, and is the leader of the couple. “She’s a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about [...]
Gallery Vandals Destroy Photos
October 9th, 2007
Extreem rechtse vandalen vernielen The History of Sex. (sic) New York Times: “A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night.” Het tinnef in actie op YouTube: Nationalists Action [...]
Tags: andres serrano · art · lund · photography · sexuality · sweden · terrorism · vandalism · video